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Portman notes Woody Hayes' 100th birthday
By: Jack Torry
The Columbus Dispatch - March 05, 2013
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, honored the 100th birthday of former Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes by placing a statement today in the Congressional Record. Portman said Hayes' "real legacy was the way he impacted the lives of those around him,'' Portman said. "He was known to take personal interest in the lives of his players and their academic careers.''
Hayes, whose 100th birthday would have been Feb. 13, coached Ohio State from 1951 until 1978. He won 205 games and two concensus national championships.
Portman, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and earned a law degree at the University of Michigan.
http://dispatchpolitics.dispatch.com/content/blogs/the-daily-briefing/2013/03/03-05-2013.html
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Re: Hayes, whose 100th birthday would have been Feb. 13
Woody was born on Valentine's Day (i.e. Feb 14, 1913)
Woody was born on Valentine's Day (i.e. Feb 14, 1913)
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cincibuck
You kids stay off my lawn!
I was working as a sideline Photog during the 1971 season. Northwestern was in town the week before the Bucks would travel to Ann Arbor and Hayes' team seemed to have their minds elsewhere.
Allow this digression: all photographers have to have credentials - at this time at OSU it was in the form of a gray felt football with "OSU vs XXX" on it in scarlet and a band of elastic. You wore this on your arm. About 15 minutes before the game all photographers were pulled together and given the rules, the biggest one being that you couldn't go beyond white lines that extended out from each 35 yard line, "That marks the coaches box, coaches and players must stay inside those lines, photographers must stay outside them. What ever you do, don't cross that line."
It was an intense game. And as I'm shooting I notice this guy from the Chicago press: Burberry raincoat, tweed sport coat, dress slacks, neat tie, brown alligator loafers and a Leica 35 around his neck with a standard 35mm lens. While the Leica is the Rolls Royce of cameras, with a 35mm lens you're not going to be taking many photos that will run the next day. This guy lurks all day, standing back and observing, openly cheering for the Wildcats and takes not one picture.
4th quarter and Ohio State is down 4 with less than five minutes to go and with the ball inside their 20. Suddenly, the Leica man is standing right outside the line and he's focusing frame after frame on Woody, getting as close as he can to him while the coach is shouting instructions, watching, yelling. The bucks eke out a first down, but on the next play a running back stays in bounds after a short gain, instead of running out and stopping the clock. Hayes grabs the kid by the face mask and screams at him. The Leica is maybe two feet from the scene and clicking away. Play moves on and every time I look at Hayes I think he's totally focused on the game. Hayes keeps inching deeper into the coaches' box and Leica man keeps inching toward him. Finally the man is all the way inside the box and his camera is less than a foot from Hayes' face. I'm lining up my shot when I hear a whompf!. Like something out of Bruce Lee film, Hayes gives the guy a shot to the chest and kicks him, literally KICKS him, about three times before the guy can scramble out of the box.
It happened so fast that none of us could get a shot of the action. Hayes knew what he was doing and knew the rules. I never heard a peep about the incident in any of the news, and given the situation and Hayes reputation I'm sure it would have made headlines were it not for the fact that the written, spoken rules state that you must stay clear of the coaches' box.
Here's one of my pics from that game. #53 is Freshman Randy Gradishar.
Allow this digression: all photographers have to have credentials - at this time at OSU it was in the form of a gray felt football with "OSU vs XXX" on it in scarlet and a band of elastic. You wore this on your arm. About 15 minutes before the game all photographers were pulled together and given the rules, the biggest one being that you couldn't go beyond white lines that extended out from each 35 yard line, "That marks the coaches box, coaches and players must stay inside those lines, photographers must stay outside them. What ever you do, don't cross that line."
It was an intense game. And as I'm shooting I notice this guy from the Chicago press: Burberry raincoat, tweed sport coat, dress slacks, neat tie, brown alligator loafers and a Leica 35 around his neck with a standard 35mm lens. While the Leica is the Rolls Royce of cameras, with a 35mm lens you're not going to be taking many photos that will run the next day. This guy lurks all day, standing back and observing, openly cheering for the Wildcats and takes not one picture.
4th quarter and Ohio State is down 4 with less than five minutes to go and with the ball inside their 20. Suddenly, the Leica man is standing right outside the line and he's focusing frame after frame on Woody, getting as close as he can to him while the coach is shouting instructions, watching, yelling. The bucks eke out a first down, but on the next play a running back stays in bounds after a short gain, instead of running out and stopping the clock. Hayes grabs the kid by the face mask and screams at him. The Leica is maybe two feet from the scene and clicking away. Play moves on and every time I look at Hayes I think he's totally focused on the game. Hayes keeps inching deeper into the coaches' box and Leica man keeps inching toward him. Finally the man is all the way inside the box and his camera is less than a foot from Hayes' face. I'm lining up my shot when I hear a whompf!. Like something out of Bruce Lee film, Hayes gives the guy a shot to the chest and kicks him, literally KICKS him, about three times before the guy can scramble out of the box.
It happened so fast that none of us could get a shot of the action. Hayes knew what he was doing and knew the rules. I never heard a peep about the incident in any of the news, and given the situation and Hayes reputation I'm sure it would have made headlines were it not for the fact that the written, spoken rules state that you must stay clear of the coaches' box.
Here's one of my pics from that game. #53 is Freshman Randy Gradishar.
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Buckskin86
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ESPN_ReceDavis Rece Davis 6m
Woody Hayes chalkboard. Among the notes, thoughts on Pete Rose and his "pay it forward" concept
https://twitter.com/ESPN_ReceDavis/status/324181041218736129/photo/1
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Onebuckfan
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"THE MAN" Urban Meyer is the Modern Day Woody..He's all about effort, team, and destruction! Iam sure Woody approves
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buckeyeintn
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Several years ago I was with a client who was retired military and had taught ROTC at tOSU in the early 60's. He told me he had an All-American DE in one of his classes who was struggling. One day this guy got a call from Coach Hayes. Woody introduced himself, and then brought up the DE. The guy said he was waiting for pressure to raise the kid's grade. Instead what he heard floored him. Woody said he was going to be helping tutor the player, and wanted to know where they needed to focus. You win with people. Woody would have fully understood that. It was more than a phrase to him. He was a great person.
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Onebuckfan
classof76
there were no shortcuts with Woody, "If its easy it must not be worth a damn!"
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ScriptOhio
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Ohio urged to boycott letter 'M'
Ohio State took their rivalry with Michigan to another level, boycotting use of the letter 'M' ahead of Saturday's game.
Ohio governor John Kasich posted a resolution on his Twitter account on Friday that recognizes "Scarlet Letter Saturday" and encourages people to avoid using the letter 'M' as the No. 3 Buckeyes travel to take on the Wolverines at Michigan Stadium.
Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football...-ohio-boycott-letter-m-ahead-game-vs-michigan
Ohio State took their rivalry with Michigan to another level, boycotting use of the letter 'M' ahead of Saturday's game.
Ohio governor John Kasich posted a resolution on his Twitter account on Friday that recognizes "Scarlet Letter Saturday" and encourages people to avoid using the letter 'M' as the No. 3 Buckeyes travel to take on the Wolverines at Michigan Stadium.
Entire article: http://espn.go.com/college-football...-ohio-boycott-letter-m-ahead-game-vs-michigan
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Everyone of us, whose families can trace their ancestry to those simple homes in Southern Ohio, understand why Woody had to go back to those parts and nurture his soul.
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